Anthropology Day 2019, a collaboration with the Research Center for Material Culture, was about FUTURES, focusing on the anthropology of the future and the future of anthropology. What futures do anthropologists imagine and strive for? What are the implicit and explicit agendas and ambitions for the future in the work of anthropologists (e.g., decolonization, sustainability, equality)? […]
On Friday June 7th 2019, the Dutch Anthropological Association (ABv) once again organized the annual “Anthropology Day”. This time the overarching theme was “the anthropology of the future and the future of anthropology”. The event took place at the National Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde) in Leiden. Once again it was a success, with nearly […]
FUTURES Anthropology of the future and the future of anthropology June 7th | Anthropology Day 2019 | New Insights were shared PROGRAM This year’s Anthropology Day, a collaboration with the Research Center for Material Culture, will be about FUTURES, focusing on the anthropology of the future and the future of anthropology. The future is an emerging […]
De Dag van de Antropologie 2019 | Meet & Greet | Book Fair | Cultureel antropoloog Jolanda Brunnekreef en auteur van het boek De Karma Revolutie is aanwezig op de Dag van de Antropologie 2019, vrijdag 7 juni. Wees erbij en spreek met Jolanda over haar bevindingen over de strijd tegen kastendiscriminatie. In verzet tegen […]
The Future of Visual Anthropology Visual Presentations | Anthropology Day 2019 | This session will look at the future of Visual Anthropology in the Netherlands. In a disciplinary sense, looking at different and innovative ways of doing Visual Anthropology and at future developments and possibilities, and in a more personal sense, giving the floor to […]
Contested Histories and the Future of Anthropology Roundtable | Anthropology Day 2019 | How do we position ourselves in a scientific field that has been founded in and has been complicit in colonial enterprise? How do these past allegiances and their legacies put the core of the discipline into question? Since Writing Culture (Clifford and […]
Student art and anthropology installation Installation | Anthropology Day 2019 | What if we try to demedicalize dementia? Considering dementia as a new stage of life. When human beings are not fully able to adapt to the structures of life anymore, life needs to be more carefully adapted to them; where there is still room […]
Dreaming about futures of anthropology teaching Workshop | Anthropology Day 2019 | In this workshop, we hope to collectively dream about and play with alternative ways of teaching anthropology. Kristine Krause (University of Amsterdam) invites participants to experience alternative forms of teaching and learning together that draw on theatre practices. How can we create other […]